John M. Barrie, Ph.D. President/CEO

Dr. John Barrie is co-founder, president and CEO of iParadigms, LLC, a leader in textual intellectual property protection and a pioneer of Turnitin ® and other web-based services for collaborative, online educational support.

In 1996 Dr. Barrie and four colleagues set out to create a new model for the protection of written work from misappropriation on the Internet. Together they built the technology behind Turnitin.com, the world's leading originality checking and plagiarism prevention service.

Turnitin is now used by millions of students and faculty at thousands of institutions in more than 100 countries -- including every university in the U.K. iThenticate ®, iParadigms commercial solution, is employed by publishers, authors, government agencies, research facilities, legal firms, financial institutions and more.

Dr. Barrie is at the forefront of using technology to drive increased awareness of best practices related to appropriate uses of other people's textual content. Implementation of Turnitin by educational institutions has demonstrably improved the academic integrity of written work at those institutions and allowed faculty to put greater focus on their teaching.

iParadigms has expanded beyond just originality checking to offer a full range of web-based services to manage an entirely digital workflow process for providing grading and feedback on students papers and incorporating peer reviewers.

As a leading expert in his field, Dr. Barrie has been featured on CNN, ABC (Good Morning America with Diane Sawyer and World News Tonight with Peter Jennings), CBS (48 Hours with Dan Rather/60 Minutes with Morley Safer), BBC, the New York Times and USA Today. Dr. Barrie is a frequent speaker on the subject of plagiarism prevention at national and international conferences.

Dr. Barrie completed his undergraduate studies in Rhetoric and Neurobiology and a Ph.D in Biophysics, both at the University of California, Berkeley.

Sally Elliott, Chief Operating Officer

Sally Elliott is an academic publishing veteran and information technology executive with long time experience in building higher education and lifelong learning business ventures. Prior to joining iParadigms, Ms. Elliott was the President of True Outcomes (a Cengage Learning company) from 2005 to 2007 and CEO of Aplia Inc., a content delivery and services company focused on providing economic content to the higher education community from 2001 to 2005. Ms. Elliott served as the VP of Product Development at Pensare, Inc., a start up company focused on web-based tools for corporate executive and management education and training from 1998 to 2001, responsible for all areas of product concept and development. From 1976 to 1997, Ms. Elliott was a leader in the academic publishing community notably: Senior Editor at MacMillan Publishing (1981-1983) and President at Benjamin/Cummings Publishing (1989-1996) and President, Consumer Publishing Group at Addison Wesley Longman (1997). Ms. Elliott also served as a Board Director for Addison Wesley Longman from 1994 to 1997.

Ms. Elliott manages the Turnitin Sales, Business Development and Marketing units of iParadigms.

Melissa Lipscomb, CFO & EVP of Business Affairs

Melissa Lipscomb, CFO & EVP, Business Affairs. Melissa Lipscomb is a founder of the Company and was its Chief Operating Officer from 2005 to 2007. Ms. Lipscomb also managed the Company's UK operations from 2002 to 2004. Ms. Lipscomb has dual degrees in English and Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to collaborating on the foundation of iParadigms in 1994, Ms. Lipscomb worked in the nonprofit and not-for-profit sectors, most notably as the sole operations and finance staff member for the current Attorney General (and former Mayor of Oakland and 2-time Governor of CA), Jerry Brown, then, the head of an Oakland-based non-profit organization, We The People, and was responsible for organizational development, large-scale volunteer coordination and supervision, and fund contribution management. Ms. Lipscomb moved to France for a year and returned to begin work with iParadigms' founding team, concurrently working in UC Berkeley's Finance administration until 2000. Ms. Lipscomb was responsible for the initial research leading to the inception of iParadigms, Inc., as a formal entity.

Ms. Lipscomb manages the Company's Accounting, Administration, Human Resources and Business Affairs units. She is also the Company's LLC Secretary, responsible for corporate affairs and investor relations.

Christian Storm, Ph.D. CTO

Dr. Christian Storm is one of the founding members of iParadigms and has served as iParadigms Chief Technology Officer (CTO) since the inception of the company in 1994. Dr. Storm came to iParadigms as a graduate student in Biophysics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has focused on the creation of novel similarity search algorithms, architecting internet crawler technology, and search systems which span heterogeneous databases.

Dr. Storm received his doctorate in Biophysics from the University of California, Berkeley. His work at Berkeley began with analyzing the stability of biologically inspired pattern recognition systems, which utilize nonlinear dynamics as their information-processing medium. From this research he developed a nonlinear systems identification methodology that can track nonlinear switching events in near real time. He authored a paper ("Detection and Classification of Nonlinear Switching Events," Phys Rev E Vol. 66, 2002) on the application of this methodology to breaking hyperchaotic key shifting codes used in secure communications. Using this methodology he also demonstrated that epileptic seizures can be anticipated in advance of seizure onset by 15 or more minutes in a large fraction of seizures. Prior to his doctoral work at Berkeley he was a member of the weather-sensing group at MIT Lincoln Labs.

Max-Emmanuel Briand, CIO

Max-Emmanuel Briand is one of the founding members of iParadigms and has been the company's Chief Information Officer (CIO) since its inception. Mr. Briand created and built the company's network topology and operating system configuration. He currently manages the company's Information Technology Department and its co-location facility staff. Mr. Briand is also the company's media spokesperson for the French and French-speaking nations' press, having been interviewed extensively by publications such as France's Figaro and Le Monde, and Quebec, Canada's public radio programs.

Mr. Briand received a degree in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked in a variety of industries, from the travel-writing business to systems administration management at Silicon Valley startups. He brings solid IT experience to the team's technology management team, and has been instrumental in brokering the company's partnerships with key IT companies throughout the Bay Area.

Katie Povejsil, Vice President, Marketing

Katie Povejsil joined iParadigms, LLC in 2008 as Vice President of Marketing.

Katie has more than 20 years experience in business development and strategic marketing for technology companies in the consumer, education and enterprise markets. Prior to joining iParadigms, she was president of Catalyst Consultants where she worked with some of the technology industry's most recognized companies, including Adobe, Cisco, Gateway, Handspring (now Palm), Hewlett-Packard, Macromedia and Panasonic.

Before launching her consulting business in 1994, Katie was director of business development at Claris, where she founded and managed their software publishing division. As vice president of New Media Publishing at Authorware (which became Macromedia, recently acquired by Adobe), she was responsible for developing a new publishing business in addition to managing education marketing and the Creative Partners developer relations program. Previously at Apple Computer, she served as manager of Software Solutions Marketing where she crafted curriculum solutions campaigns, lead the launch of the revolutionary multimedia authoring tool HyperCard, and started a campus solutions newsletter called Syllabus that became Campus Technology magazine.

Katie is the president of Thursday Morning Dialogues, an issues discussion forum, and serves on several of the Software Information Industry Association's Education Division committees. She also serves on the advisory board for SellingtoSchools.com, an online professional learning community for sharing sales and marketing best practices in the education market.

Katie graduated with a bachelor's degree in engineering from Cornell University and received a master's degree in engineering from Stanford University.